Pick your numbers and see what you would have won — or lost — if you'd played those exact numbers in every past draw. This free simulator replays the Powerball and Mega Millions numbers you choose against every historical drawing on record, tallying exactly how many times you would have matched each prize tier and how much you would have spent versus won along the way. It's a hindsight look at your numbers, not a prediction of future draws, since every lottery drawing is independent and past results have no bearing on what comes next. Use it out of curiosity to see how your birthday, lucky numbers, or favorite combination would have actually performed over time.
Main Numbers (1-69) (0/5)
Powerball (1-26) (0/1)
Time Range
Select 5 main numbers and 1 Powerball to run the simulation
This tool replays a set of numbers you choose against every past drawing in the selected time range and tells you what those numbers would have won, had you played them every single time. It's a genuinely fun way to explore "what if" — what if you'd played your birthday every draw for the last five years, what if you'd stuck with the same Quick Pick combination for a year — but it's important to be clear about what it isn't: a prediction tool. Nothing about how a specific combination performed in the past changes how it will perform in the next drawing. Lottery machines don't have memory, and every future draw is a fresh, independent event with identical odds for every possible combination.
A useful way to think about this simulator is as a hindsight calculator rather than a forecasting one. If you run your numbers against the last year of draws and see that you would have spent $520 and won back $38, that's real information about the house-edge math behind these games — on average, lottery games return somewhere between 50-65 cents in prizes for every dollar spent, with the rest funding state programs, retailer commissions, and jackpot growth. Seeing that math play out against your own chosen numbers, rather than as an abstract percentage, is often more intuitive than reading the number cold.
One quirk worth understanding: because this simulator uses real historical draws rather than a randomized model, the specific numbers you pick will occasionally look "better" or "worse" than average purely by chance — some historical windows happened to favor certain combinations, the same way any finite sample of coin flips will show some short streaks of heads or tails. That's normal statistical variance, not a property of the numbers themselves. Running the same numbers against a longer time range, or trying a few different combinations, is a good way to see that variance average out over a larger sample.